Timeline of Northumbria and Northumberland - 600

600

  • 604 Aethelfrith unites Bernicia and Deira to form Northumbria.
  • 625 Paulinus is consecrated as Bishop of York.
  • 638 Gododdin hillfort at Edinburgh is captured by Oswald of Northumbria.
  • 664 Synod of Whitby
  • 664 Plague in British Isles travels at least as far north as Lastingham.
  • 685 Loss to Picts at Battle of Dun Nechtain (Nechtansmere) limits northern expansion.
  • 687 Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria, dies at his Inner Farne Island hermitage.

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